Fight Strategy Quotes

That first loss in the UFC was a tough one. I hadn't fought in a year, and you start again, different organisation, different scenario, and it all plays into it.

When I face an opponent in the cage, it doesn't really matter who they are. Whether they're my buddy, like Scott Jorgensen, or someone I don't like, like Dominick Cruz, I'm going in there and realizing this guy is trying to hurt me, and that's what I'm going to do to him. I try to keep it real basic.

I'm not surprised to be the coach on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

My main goal is Vitali Klitschko. I figure eight rounds, I nail him with a right hand, a left-right combination and it's a wrap.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

It's interesting how Khabib fights but to me it's just boring, it's lazy.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.

I'd like to see him fight at 135 for the championship. I want to see how good Demetrious Johnson is or how far he could take it.

Every fighter has a different agenda. Every promoter has a different agenda for their fighter. Every manager has a different agenda. So things change all the time.

I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

Jon has always been able to start off at a certain pace but then pick it up throughout the fight and then, at the end of the fight, his opponents are like, 'Damn, this guy is at another level.' I think that's what makes Jon Jones, Jon Jones.

All of my fights, I try to end the fight. That's my style.

I believe, if I beat Demian Maia, it's going to be very hard for the other top guys to go around me.

I'm telling you, Amir Khan gives Floyd Mayweather problems.

At the end of the day, when two combatants get into the ring and/or cage, it's anybody's game, especially in MMA.

I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'

Obviously, I'm trying to keep improving at everything, from the wrestling to the jiu-jitsu to the striking to the transitions, every part of my MMA aspect.

This sport is growing. It's about patience, rather than getting caught up in five in a row, want a title shot, main event. The goal is to put on a great fight and be smart.

MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.

He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

I have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster.

I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That's who I want to get in there with.

My uncle used to fight Vale Tudo, and my mother even cornered him in some of his fights.